In the News (Tue 31 Mar 15)

StanleyUnwin (June 7, 1911- January 12, 2002), born in Pretoria, South Africa, sometimes billed as Professor StanleyUnwin, was more than just a British comedian and comic writer.

Unwin's advice for those who have overeaten at Christmas dinner: Christmas (literally, the Mass of Christ) is a holiday in the Christian calendar, usually observed on December 25, which celebrates the birth of Jesus.

StanleyUnwin (publisher) Sir StanleyUnwin (1885-1968) was a British publisher, founder of the George Allen and Unwin house in 1914.

StanleyUnwin (1911 - 2002), sometimes billed as Professor StanleyUnwin, was more than just a British comedian and comic writer.

In 1961 Unwin collaborated with artist Roy Dewar on The Miscillian Manuscript, a kind of Unwinese travelogue with cartoons and collages by Dewar.

Unwin's advice for those who have overeaten at Christmas dinner: "If you've done an overstuffy in the tumloader, finisht the job with a ladleho of brandy butter, then pukeit all the way to the toileybox." more illustrative examples to follow; until then, deep thoughcus on your philositrode and dangly.

StanleyUnwin: Master of Nonsense - tribute from BBC News to the man who specialized in an unfathomable verbal style, replete with malapropisms and poetic gobbledegook.

STANLEYUNWIN, who has died aged 90, was a comedian and writer who made his name talking nonsense; unlike most who constructed such careers, however, "Professor" Unwin's utterances were constructed intentionally, and destructed to their illogical conclusion.

Stanley is a true veteran of Radios Golden Age, when the nation tuned in to the wireless to listen to The Goons, Round the Horne and Steptoe and Son.

StanleyUnwin, who had previously worked for his uncle T. Fisher Unwin, acquired an interest, and the firm of George Allen and Unwin Ltd was formally registered on 4 August 1914.

Unwin was a Nonconformist and a liberal thinker, and his views were often reflected in the books published by the firm, such as work by Bertrand Russell, J.A. Hobson, L.T. Hobhouse and Ramsay MacDonald.

In 1928 Unwin purchased the firm of Williams and Norgate, which was then sold to his remaining co-director, E.L. Skinner, as part of the deal which saw Skinner's departure from the firm in 1934.

Sir StanleyUnwin (1884-1968) was an author and head of the English publishing house of George Allen and Unwin, Ltd. which he established in 1914.

It may be assumed that Sir Stanley chose to separate them out from his business files (note, for example, the pencilled instructions on Priestley's letter to make a copy for the file) because these were letters from the now or soon-to-be famous and he wished to keep them in his personal files.

Letter, August 11, 1932, London, to Sir StanleyUnwin, explaining why a pamphlet he had written for the Fabian Society had not been submitted to George Allen and Unwin, Ltd. for publication and Leonard Woolf's role in all of this.

Rayner Unwin, who has died aged 74, was born into the publishing business, being a son of Sir StanleyUnwin, whose dedication to the trade was total.

Allen and Unwin's major problem, acute in the mid-1980s, was being middle-sized, neither large enough to absorb overheads easily nor small enough to be quirky and buoyant.

Rayner Unwin, who was awarded the CBE in 1977, was a senior figure with the Publishers Association, notably for the 23rd International Publishers Association Congress of 1987, the first to be held in the UK since 1936, when his father had been in charge.

STANLEYUNWIN, who died yesterday, was sometimes confused with Sir Stanley of Allen & Unwin, the original publishers of The Lord of the Rings.

I waited for someone to explain that Unwin's patois, called "gobbledegook", had an honourable tradition, was in fact a Middle English dialect from the hill villages of Mercia, and that he was its last fluent speaker.

Unwin was a BBC engineer who just made the whole thing up, inspired by his mother's quirky conversational hybrid of Mrs Malaprop and the Reverend Spooner.

In the days of radio wireless, Unwin had a perfect medium by which to deliver his strange tales to a public that lapped up every world, revelling in its beauty and accrediting him the appellation of Professor.

Now heading through his 80's, Unwin is still active, but will be best remembered in posterity for his appearance in Carry on Regardless and his contribution to The Small Face's concept album Ogden's Nut Gone Flake where he narrates the tale of Happiness Stan.

Despite massive popularity in his heyday, there is very little else that is commonly available to expose his incredible work to the current generation; the internet itself is completely bare regarding other works he has performed and there is only the one photograph (shown) immortalising his existance.

Notes : StanleyUnwin was working on Chitty Chitty Bang Bang when Anderson approached him about working on the series.

Notes : Unwin thought the puppet version of himself was very generous and made him appear handsome.

Unwin is aided by his miniaturized gardener, Matthew, who helps solve cases carried around in a briefcase equipped with a periscope and tool kit.

www.action-tv.org.uk /guides/secretservice.htm (384 words)

The World of Stanley Unwin(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)

It was a bit of inspired mucking about that got Stanley his first broadcast and eventually his first fan letter.

Stanley was about to try a recording so he handed the microphone to Buck who then started ad libbing a commentary about an imaginary sport called the 'Fasche'.

The recording was played back to two of Stanley's producers, Peter Cairns and David Martin, who added some bizarre sound effects and got it aired on Pat Dixon's (later producer of the Goon Shows) 'Mirror of the Month' programme.

Elderly parish priest Father StanleyUnwin (voice of Unwin) seems to live a sedate existence in his country vicarage, his needs tended to by his gardener, Matthew Harding (Files), and his housekeeper and cook, Mrs.

But Father Unwin is a man of more than one calling; not only is he a priest, he is a special operative for the government, answering to the B.I.S.H.O.P. (that is, British Intelligence Secret Headquarters Operation Priest).

Father Unwin, with Matthew lugged about in a specially outfitted suitcase, inconspicuously zips about the countryside in a bright yellow Model T Ford named "Gabriel," thwarting bad guys, thieves, spies, saboteurs and enemies of democracy with a minimum of fuss.

Father Unwin and Matthew are called upon to overcome the barrier of diplomatic immunity in a not-so-simple case of theft.

This is the puzzle that lands Father Unwin and Matthew in the thick of international epionage.

Father Unwin and Matthew are given the task of finding a master spy, thought to be in the protection of a 'man of repute'.

www.tv-timewarp.co.uk /secret_service (215 words)

‘Professor’ Stanley Unwin, who died on 12 January 2002, aged ninety, was a master of verbal imagery — turning words ...(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)

‘Professor’ StanleyUnwin, who died on 12 January 2002, aged ninety, was a master of verbal imagery — turning words inside out and imparting to them a quirky surrealistic edge which somehow heightened their original meaning.

I met Stanley but once and it was a delight to have a little ‘tilty-elbow’ (as he put it) with him.

JG This is a saxophorial historical to celebrate the thirty years of Ronnie Scott’s speshlode in Frith Street or Sohothrall with gathery peoplode who have that joy to listen for these wonderful instrumolds that he has so manifepst.

BBC also has another obituary: Comedian StanleyUnwin dies, and a page with samples: StanleyUnwin Thinking of England on BBCi.

Few variety artistes have caught the publicï¿½s imagination quite like StanleyUnwin, the self-styled ï¿½Professor of Unwineseï¿½, a glottal-stopped gobbledegookian language that sounded deceptively like English trying to swallow itself.